Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-11-19
DAILY HERALD.
A yEsTIBULED TRAIN
To Arrive To-day with = Ray
nepa a Whitcomb Party.

A vESTIBULED TRAIN
ne Arrive To-day with u Ray
mena 4 Whitcemb Party.
The first train of Pullman vestibule
cars that ever left Boston for the Pa
ci6c coast, started from the Fitch
burg station at A P. M, November
10th. 1t had ON board Raymond &
Whitcomb's first California excursion
party, numbering 165 persons. The
train consists of five remarkably hand
some sleepers, built expressly for
Raymond & Whitcomb by Pulman's
Palace Car Company: two dining cars
and novel combination car, all of the
vestibule pattern, besides baggage
car. The route it took from Boston
to this city is as follows: Fitchburg,
West Shore, Great Western division
Of the Grand Trunk, Chicago& Grand
Trunk, Chicago, Rock Island & Pa
cific, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe,
Atlantic & Pacific, California South
ern, California Central. The tourists
arrived in Chicago last Saturday
morning and remained there till Mon
day morning. They stopped some
hours at Las Vegas hot springs on the
10th, and at Santa Fe on the 18th, and
will arrive here to-day.
The excursion train ran through
"solid' to the Pacific coast, made up
as follows: The combination car
Harvard" the dining cars cray
mond" and "Del Monte" and the
sIeepers "Whitcomb," "Holden,"
pasadena" "Almeria" and "Corin-
thia." A sleeper from New York, the
"Servia," was taken up at Rotterdam
Junction. This is the first vestibule
train that ever started from Boston for
California, and the cars will be the
FIRST vestibnle cars ever seen west of
the Rocky Mountains. The Pullman
Palace Car Company has built them
expressly for Raymond & Whitcomb's
use, and has spared no pains to make
them perfect in every way. All the
cars in the train have the rich exterior
color always employed by the Pullman
company. The interior finish and dec
orations are exceedingly handsome.
The sleeping cars are finished in ma
hogany and pale blue plush, the din
ing car in French oak and myrtle
green plush, and the composite car
in English oak. Wilton carpets
are used throughout, and Bak-
er heaters are employed.
There is every convenience in the way
of electric bells, lavatories, etc. The
composite car includes a smoking
room, a library, buffet, a barber
shop and bath room. and drawing
room. In order to insure the serving
of meals regularly to the 165 members
of the party, both dining cars have
been used. Major j. F. Trout, of
Chicago, the Pullman Company's
chief commissary, had the Ray
mond" and "Del Monte" in hand for
several days, supplying them with all
the necessaries and luxuries OF a first
class hotel for the transcontinental
journey. All in all, the equipment is
entirely worthy of the title assigned to
it by General Passenger Agent Watson
OF the Hoosac Tunnel route, the I'm
perial" train. The party is in charge
OF G. II. Wilson, with assistants F. 1.
Whitcomb, HI. G. Lyon. L. j. Shap-
leigh is be in charge OF the baggage.
The following is a full list of the
passengers to arrive:
MIRA N Alling New Haven; Mrs N ALI
ing, New Haven; Miss Alice w Austin, Mrs
John Austin, Providence; Mr. I Bigelow,
Webster: Mr. Blackington, Mrs Backing
ton, New York; Miss E Blakeslee, North Ha-
ven Mr. John Bley, philadei l Sa;o Mrs M Da
Breck, Mr. William Breck, Mrs William
Brock, Claremont; Miss Bessie Brown, Sa-
lem; Mr. w A Butler, Mrs W Butler, Stony
Creek. Mrs John Campbell, Grafton, Miss
HuIdah Chase, Pawtucket; Mr. Charles N
Church. Troy; DR. H B Clarke. New Bedford;
Mrs Marion II Clarke, Allston Miss NJ e
Colt, Norwich; Miss Cooper, Mrs J
Dean, Roxbury; Mrs Marion de Clercq, Chi
cago; Mr. Edward F Deyereux, Mr. Dow, Bos-
ton; MIRA I Downing, Concord; DR.; n Evans
FAIRBANKS, North Cambridge; Miss sa-
die c. Farwell, Claremont; Mr. G X
Boston; DR. Henry NJ Field. Newton; Mrs
Newton; Mr. W Field, Newton; Mr. Chas
Foote. Hyde Park; Mr. Cyrus Gale, North
boro; Mrs Cyrus Gale, Northboro; Mrs
B Gleason, Elmira; Mrs A ? Glover, Boston;
Hamlin, Portland; Mrs FL Hendrick,
Springfield; Mr.. Ellen W Hold. sdon, DR.
L Hodgdon, Mrs r L Hodgdon, Arlington;
Miss Amy Lee Howard, Mrs Mark How
ard, Miss Myra Lee Howard. Hartford; Mr.
Chsresi Hull, Mrs Charles Hull, Danbury;
Miss 8 johnson, London, Ont; Mr. 7
Jones, Mrs 7 Jones, Chelsea; Mr. Albert
L Kimball, Mrs Albert L Kimba l, Brad
ford; Miss M Kimball, Bradford; the Rev
Arthur M Knapp, Mrs Arthur M Knapp, Mr.
Arthur 7 KNAPP, WATERFOWL; NJ Lock
wood. Mr. Lockw GOD, Baltimore: Miss
Phail, Boston; Mr. William Mckenzie, ROx-
bury; Mrs william Mackenzie, Roqbury;
Mr. s Messer, Mr. Henry Mills, Mrs Hen.
Mountford Mills, Bosom; Mr. Frank Nor
gan, Provident e; Mrs A A Nudge, Miss 1
k Nudge, Boston; Miss Otis, Sherwood; c
Packard, Mrs E NJ Packard. Cam bridge:
Page. North Hvaen; Charles 9 Paul. New
ton Centre; Mrs A. A Phiipps, Miss
Bessie a 4, PhipPs. Mrs E ETA F. Phipps, ia,
%Sca PIaH MRS Miss M1s bapy
G A Raymond, Mrs a Raymond, Troy;
william Redwood Mrs William Redwood,
Nyack; Elisha Roberts, Moorestown; Mrs
sierra Madre, Cal; Alexander Y sedgwicK,
stockbridge; C Sharp, Mrs Sharp, Mrs
CLsmith, Miss C Louise Smith, Boston
Miss Ellen Z Smith, unionyllle, q; Mrs
Cambridge; Mrs L Southland, Athol; Miss
Eleanor Spencer, Brooklyn, Miss. Mary
Spencer. Hartford; Miss Hattie wv W
seas sss santa fartlaG Gara MRS MISS Mary ABBY
Stevens, Eimira; Miss Clara Stone Ashland;
Miss Charlotte H Swift, Andover; Mrs A
Taft New York; Mrs Mary A Thorpe, Athol;
Tingley, Conway; Mrs Lottie E Wadsworth,
Petersham; Master William E Waite, PrOvi-
dence; Mrs william H Waite, Providence;
Mrs A E Wallace, Cincinnati Miss Eva M
Miss K Watson, Orange; NJ G Wentworth,
Mrs M C Wentworth, Jackson: Captain
George M Whipple Mrs George Whipple,
Salem; Mrs Margaret whitney, Saratoga
Springs; Miss Edith L wilde, ] D wilde, Mrs
d Wilde, Melrose; II Wilkinson, st
Thomas, Ont; Z II Williams, Hyde Park; g
w A Williams, Mrs G W A Williams, Boston {;
John + Wiltsee, Mrs John F Wiltsee, Cincin
natl; Miss Annie Wooster, w II II Wooster,
Mrs w II H Wooster, Seymour.
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Go to Ward & Weinshank, corner of Wall